How To Install mame on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mame
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mame
mame is:
MAME is a hardware emulator: it faithfully reproduces the behavior of many arcade machines (it is not a simulation). This program is not a game but can directly, through ROM images, run the complete system of these old arcade machines. These ROMs are subject to copyright and it is in most of the cases illegal to use them if you do not own the arcade machine.
This package provides the MAME binary and configuration files.
There are three methods to install mame
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mame Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mame
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mame
Install mame Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mame
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mame
Install mame Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mame
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mame
How To Uninstall mame on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mame
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mame
Uninstall mame And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mame
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mame
Remove mame Configurations and Data
To remove mame
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mame
Remove mame configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mame
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mame
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mame
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.